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“Modern politics is civil war carried on by other means.”

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Book:After Virtue

Source: After Virtue

“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.”

“What this brings out is that modern politics cannot be a matter of genuine moral consensus. And it is not. Modern politics is civil war carried on by other means.”

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Book:After Virtue

Source: After Virtue

“It is not in the outward and visible world of material life that the Celtic genius of Wales or Ireland can at this day hope to count for much; it is in the inward world of thought and science.What it has been, what is has done, what it will be or will do, as a matter of modern politics.”

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Author:Matthew Arnold

“There is a schizophrenic nature in modern politics. A leader is expected to have a religious faith but he is not supposed to let it influence him in his duties. Somehow, the truths that determine everything else about his existence are not allowed to influence how he conducts himself in public life. Not only that, his principles are usually considered so personal that the public is not even allowed to know for certain what they are. This passes for noble statecraft in our time. It was once thought cowardice.”

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Author:Stephen Mansfield

“Modern politics has become little more than shirking responsibility and blaming somebody else.”

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Book:United We Stand: How We Can Take Back Our Country

Source: United We Stand: How We Can Take Back Our Country

“The man is the Piltdown Man of modern politics.”

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Author:Charlie Pierce

“I am a secularist in the Gandhian sense of the word, not the Nehruvian one. Nehru thought religion was an antique superstition which stood in the way of rational modern politics. I side with Gandhi, who wanted religious figures out of politics but also was suspicious of purely rational politics.”

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Author:Pankaj Mishra